HATTINGH, LANETTE

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HODGES, KAREN

Karen is part of the vibrant team of the Kobus Neethling Group. She has been developing creative behaviour in children and young adults for the last 8 years. Her fun-filled creativity classes are well-known throughout Cape Town where she is based. In her classes she concentrates on building self-esteem and establishing creative confidence by designing classes to stimulate the whole brain. Karen also specialises in presentations which assist parents and teachers to develop creative behaviour in children. Four and a half years ago she decided to adopt a farm school in the Durbanville area as her community project and has been teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds creative thought processes. Besides her involvement in the field of creativity, she is a financial manager for a successful quantity surveying practice.

HURSON, TIM

Tim is one of North America's pioneers of idea marketing. He has helped major organisations in the US, Canada and the UK create innovation, marketing, new product and workplace transformation programs. He has trained thousands of executives in improving their thinking skills and their ability to communicate their ideas. His keynote speeches on creative intelligence, perception and leadership are in demand throughout the world. He has written numerous articles on improving creative intelligence both in the workplace and at home. Tim is co-author of "thinkx", a productive thinking model and delivery system that helps organisations identify and develop their untapped thinking capacity.

Tim is a contributor to the most recent edition (1998) of Roger von Oech's A Whack on the Side of the Head. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, is Chair of the Board or Directors of the Responsible Gambling Council of Canada, Chair of the YMCA Employment and Community Services Advisory Council, member of the Governing Council of the YMCA of Metropolitan Toronto, member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (Toronto), and member of the Board of Trustees of the Creative Education Foundation (Hadley, MA). He is also a co-founder of a new non-profit, volunteer organisation, Facilitators Without Borders, whose mission is to assist communities in civic problem-solving and opportunity-finding.

JARRARD, WJ (BILL)

Bill is the founder of Mindwerx International and Co-Director of the Buzan Centre:Australia/NZ. Known as the Chief Imagineer, mainly because of his unique ability to help companies imagine what they might become and to then assist them in achieving their vision, Bill consults to all types of organisations in Strategic Thinking, Creativity and Innovation. 

Holding a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Bill is also one of only a handful of people in Australia accredited to present the de Bono programs - Lateral Thinking™, Six Thinking Hats®, and Direct Attention Thinking Tools. He is also a licensed instructor in Buzan’s Mind Mapping, and is the founder of the Creativity Exchange Network in Australia.

Bill is convenor/lecturer of the Creativity & Innovation module of the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MEI) program run by Swinburne University-AGSE and a guest lecturer on two MBA programs. Bill regularly facilitates future focus workshops and presents Mindwerx programs throughout Asia.

JOUBERT, INA

Ina Joubert is a lecturer at the University of Pretoria. She lectures in the field of Early Childhood Education and specializes in Early Literacy and Children's Literature. One of her special interests is to facilitate literacy to young children in a creative way by using stories, fables and poetry. This strategy is especially successful with indigenous stories of Africa. This motivates children to create own reading materials in their own context. She is currently busy with a PhD project on citizenship education in South Africa, focusing on creative and interactive citizenship education for the young child.

LE STORTI, ANTHONY J

Anthony Le Storti is Executive Consultant for IDEATECTS® Inc., a firm specialising in creativity, leadership, and the dynamics of human systems. He founded and directed the Center for Creative Studies at Gwynedd-Mercy College and has taught graduate courses at La Salle University, Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. He has an established reputation as a consultant, author and process leader, and has presented widely at major conferences and institutes. His clientele include Fortune 500 corporations as well as educational and nonprofit organisations. A former special warfare officer decorated for service in Vietnam, he holds degrees from La Salle and Temple Universities and has completed executive programs at Harvard Law School, JFK School of Government, and Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Creativity Association, a Colleague of the Creative Education Foundation and a recipient of that Foundation's Leadership Services and Commitment Award.